Here’s a video from the event. What I found most interesting (and powerful) was the performance of the tsarist national anthem, “God Save the Tsar” (it’s in the first three minutes of the video, so you don’t have to watch the whole thing to see it). The audience stood out of respect, which is fascinating. “God Save the Tsar” is not the national anthem of Russia anymore—though it may have remained so if the February and October revolutions never took place back in 1917.

For Russian learners, I have the lyrics for “God Save the Tsar” in both English and Russian below the video.

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I'm Natalie. By day, I work at The Bank. By night, I do awesome things like write this blog. On here, I write about anything Russia-related, foreign languages (I'm a fluent Russian speaker), history, and literature. Read more here.